Alex Broun
It was an extraordinary moment — not just for Australian television but for the battle for more humane treatment for abused and neglected refugees in Australia.
It was Sunday night on Channel Ten — another mundane eviction episode
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Rohan Pearce
The exposure of the brutal policy of torture carried out by the US occupiers in Iraq is just the latest political debacle for the governments of the US-British-Australian invasion coalition. Just like the scandal over Iraq's
David Scrimgeour
The Coalition government is currently spending millions of dollars in an advertising campaign to convince the Australian people that the recent legislative changes with "strengthen" Medicare.
Not only is this a blatant waste of
DARWIN — Participants in a June 7 protest against the Australian government's theft of East Timor's oil and gas resources. The protest was organised to coincide with the annual South East Asia Australia Offshore Conference.
Photo by Kathy
Pablo Stefanoni, La Paz
Government officials and planners have long seen El Alto as a "problem city" — a hotbed of political protest, indigenous people's resistance and autonomous grassroots organisation.
El Alto — located 4000 metres above
The corporate media have filled the airwaves with days on end of nauseating tributes to Ronald Reagan. Here, Alan Maass and Lee Sustar from the US Socialist Worker tell the truth about this disgusting bigot.
It was natural that US President George
Tamara Pearson, Sydney
SYDNEY - Frequent, long power cuts; dirty water that is often turned off; people queuing for petrol for seven hours in 45°C heat and soldiers aiming guns at them when they get to the petrol station.
This is the Iraq
SARAH STEPHEN
Franciszek Kulon was born in Sanok, Poland, and developed his painting skills by studying with masters such as Bronislaw Naczas, Edward Kiferling, Marian Kruczek and Michal Bylina.
Today, Kulon lives in the Catskills, not far from
SYDNEY — On June 10, refugee-rights group ChilOut marked the passing of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's deadline for children and their parents to be released from immigration detention.
In Sydney, 500 people rallied and
Water: The Drop Of Life — Examines the impact of social, economic, cultural, strategic and agricultural factors on drinking water. SBS, Friday, June 25, 1pm.
Organ Farm: Man Made Pigs — Looks at the highly secret, multibillion dollar industry
Norman Brewer, Auckland
In elections on May 9 in New Caledonia (Kanaky) and on May 23 in French Polynesia (Te Ao Maohi, also known by the name of its main island, Tahiti), both pro-French ruling parties unexpectedly found themselves unseated. In
REVIEW BY FRANK NICKLASON
The One Tree ProjectDirected by Helen Cameron
Tasmanian filmmaker Helen Cameron's documentary The One Tree Project is a fine work that deserves to become a cult film. Its power is that it is not a polemical piece.
The
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